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Log In to Brightspace
If you are having trouble logging in, use the sections below to find the right next step. * I don’t know where to log in * I forgot my password * My login isn’t working * I need help with two-factor authentication Important: Your organization manages your Brightspace account and login credentials. D2L cannot reset your…
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Change your personal settings in Brightspace
By clicking on your username, you can make changes to your user profile, notifications, account settings, and log out. Note: Depending on your permissions and what tools are enabled, additional settings may appear. Edit your user profile You can edit your user profile, including updating your profile picture, social…
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Navigate Brightspace and find your course
Learn about your Brightspace organizational homepage, how to find a course in your organization, and how to navigate your course level homepage. Navigate your organizational homepage The Brightspace organizational homepage is designed to help make your job easier, more efficient, and give you greater reach when it comes to…
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Browser support
Use a supported browser to ensure optimal performance, accessibility, and security in Brightspace. D2L recommends that all users access Brightspace using the latest version of a supported browser. Most browsers automatically update to the latest version by default. To ensure you are always running the latest browser…
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Activate your course
After building your course, ensure that you are aware if it is accessible to learners by controlling its availability and active status. This is particularly important if you only want to make your course available to learners during a specified time period or academic term. Make your course available and active From your…
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Design your Course
You can create a course and design it to meet your learner's needs. Create your course First, create a course. Refer to Manage courses and course templates with the Courses tool to learn about how to create a course offering or course template. Important: To use the Courses tool, ensure that you have the required Courses…
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About course administration
Course Administration is a central area for accessing tools related to setting up and managing your course. From here you can access many tools to help you run your course smoothly, including: * Enable and disable course tools * Rename course tools * Manage course offering information * Import course components * Import…
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Best practices for creating a Course Homepage
The course homepage is likely the first page your learners see when they land in your course. Therefore it’s important to design the homepage with purpose to enhance the course experience. The goal is to place useful information in intuitive places rather than create a cluttered homepage that causes your learners to…
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Customize your course navbar
When you log in to Brightspace, you will notice that your course homepage is broken up into two sections. In the top half, you will see navigation tools, such as your navbar. You can customize your navbar to surface the tools most relevant to you and your learners . Your navbar can be enabled to be text-based or…
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Add and organize course content
About course content Instructors can create course content with the following tools: * Create course content with the Content tool * Format course content with the use of Brightspace Editor * Add URL links to a course with the Links tool * Create a custom learning path in a course with Release Conditions * Notify learners…